[K3PZN-List] More Field Day Musings

Tue Jun 5 13:38:24 EDT 2007

Hi Everyone;

I'm getting excited about our field day just by
reading about YOURS!

I have to confess that as you take inventory of the
two CCARC Carolina Windoms - one works great, and one
has the "WX3B Broke it" signature on it from last
November.  

I believe the broken one requires a tower
climb/analysis to fix...

Well...at least not out stalling any generators.

Have a good time and we'll see you guys on all the
bands. 

73!

Jim  WX3B
--- Curt Milton <.com> wb8yyy at yahoowrote:

> John
> 
> Thanks for leading the activity again this year.  
> 
> I will provide a K2 to Bill's CW station #2.  It is
> 'back in one piece' after being upgraded to 100
> watts.  It consumes a little more power on receive
> in this configuration (maybe double?) so we need to
> assess how many mA-hours will be available at Bill's
> set-up.  BILL N3WM - contact me to coordinate what
> we need (and if you are acting as treasurer you are
> looking for me anyway).  
> 
> As for a third QRP CW station, if we deploy one, it
> should work well on 15m since K2's likely will want
> to be on 20 and 40 m during the daytime.  I dont
> know how much we will gain here beyond the bonus
> points.  
> 
> We do need to practically assess how many
> simultaneous HF antennas we will employ !  
> 
> 160m    longer carolina windom, CW only  (1)
> 80m      shorter windom + 2 inverted V's    (3)
> 40m      same antennas above ?
> 20/15/10   triband beam for SSB  (1)
> 
> 20m       PSK31 (N8PK)  maybe a dipole is the way to
> go ?  (1)  -- as an alternative i have a 20m half
> square (someone gave it to me, it's commercially
> made, vertical elements are a quarter wave so it
> needs to be a little bit higher off the ground than
> that)
> 
> 20m       CW  -- a 88 foot extended double zepp
> would be interesting if broadside can be towards the
> west, also could be used on 80/40/15m   (1?)
> 
> 10m ?    this would be an interesting band for a
> second phone station if we get sporadic E.  i need
> to evaluate if my HX-10 will operate QRP reliabily
> by turning down the drive.  
> 
> if we are a bit resourceful, we might be able to
> constrain how many antennas we need by appropriate
> scheduling.  
> 
> Food - can we use grills on the grounds ?  i am
> willing to help but i am not the resourceful expert
> to pull it all together.  
> 
> GIOTA - i will bring a nice 20m CW rig for this.  we
> need to determine how we can effectively do logging
> with other transmitters sharing the same band.  (i
> will defer to John to operate the PM and HW7, and if
> someone falls in love with the latter they should
> buy my HW8).  
> 
> GOTA - we should assess if we have operators, and
> the points are to our advantage.  do rules allow
> same rigs to be shared with other operations?  
> 
> VHF CW - i would be willing to give (in particular)
> 6 and 2 meters a try.  logging could be shared with
> the VHF station PC.  
> 
> if coax is in short supply, let me know as i could
> loan two 100 feet sections of RG8.  
> 
> if someone has SSTV savy, it would be an interesting
> demo mode (extra points here) that could be shown to
> any visitors, if we can arrangement someone to
> exchange pictures with, say on 2m or 440 ?  
> 
> 73, curt
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: W3JJH <w3jjh at arrl.net>
> To: k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net
> Cc: llachow at gmail.com
> Sent: Monday, June 4, 2007 2:45:01 PM
> Subject: [K3PZN-List] More Field Day Musings
> 
> 
> All:
> 
> Last year, we ran as 11F.  This year, if we have
> enough operators during the
> push, we can do the same or, perhaps, get up to 13F.
>  The reason that bumping
> the number up is important is that we get 100 bonus
> points for each rig that
> operates off of emergency power. Since we'll be all
> battery, that's 1100 to 1300
> points for a 15 min effort.
> 
> As of now, we have two Station Captains for HF CW
> and one K2 committed.  I'd
> like a couple fo people to step up as Captains of a
> third HF CW rig and a VHF CW
> (at least for the push); it would be great to have a
> second or third K2 or other
> contest-quality QRP CW rig. I've had some tenative
> offers.  How about some firm
> ones?
> 
> I'd like to set up three CW rig in the club station
> area so that they can use
> the on-site antennas.  The digital rigs can set up
> wherever it's convenient. 
> VHF/UHF has dibs on the picnic table and area they
> used last year.  I propose to
> set up a dining fly or large tent on the lawn for HF
> Phone, GOTA, and a station
> I call GIOTA.  That stands for "Get It On The Air." 
> This would be a place set
> up with a multiband antenna and tuner where we could
> operate whatever rigs we
> wanted on a causal basis. For example, when the main
> 40m CW station was down for
> a break, I could put my Powermite on the air.  All
> rigs would be welcome as long
> as they were battery powered and QRP.  Bring your
> Tuna Tin 2s, etc,. and have fun!
> 
> We still don't have a Food Captain.
> 
> We also need "Station Captain" for the H/T stations
> we will run during the push.
> 
> Here's the current slate of Station Captains and
> committed equipment:
> 
> Station/Captain/Radio/Power Source/Antenna
> 
> HF CW1/N3SB/Elecraft K2/ ??? /EOC Antennas
> HF CW2/N3WM/ ??? / ??? /EOC Antennas
> HF CW3/ ??? / ??? /EOC Antennas
> HF DIG1/K3KWO/IC-703/Big Battery Array/Outbacker
> HF DIG2/N8PK/PSK20/ ??? / ???
> HF PH/W3JJH/Argonaut V/Big Battery Array/132 ft
> ladder-line fed inverted-vee
> VHF PH/KB3GHE/FT-817/Solar Array/Club VHF-UHF Quad
> VHF CW/ ??? /FT-817/Small Battery Array/Small yagis
> 2m PH/ ??? /IC-32W/Internal/Rubber Duckie
> 220MHz PH/ ??? /Alinco/DJ-280/Internal/Rubber Duckie
> 70cm PH/ ??? /Internal/Rubber Duckie
> 23cm PH/ ??? /IC-T81/Internal/Rubber Duckie
> GOTA/ ??? /Index Labs QRP+/Big Battery
> Array/Outbacker
> GIOTA/W3JJH/See List/Medium Battery Array/132 ft
> ladder-line fed inverted-vee
> 
> GIOTA Rigs so far:
> Ten Tec Powermite 3A
> Heathkit HW-7
> 
> Did I mention that we needed a Food Captain?  Feel
> free to volunteer for that or
> any other open position.
> 
> 73 de W3JJH
> John
> 
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> Field Day
> at www.k3pzn.org
> 
> 
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